The thylacine vanished from mainland Australia about 3,200 years ago, yet survived in Tasmania into the 20th century: the last one died in Hobart Zoo in 1936.
The events
- Thylacine vanishes from mainland Australiac. 1200 BC · Mainland Australia. The thylacine is estimated to have died out on mainland Australia about 3,200 years ago, close to the Late Bronze Age collapse in the Mediterranean. A drier climate, humans and possibly dingoes are blamed; in Tasmania it survived into the 20th century.
- Death of the last thylacine1936 · Hobart, Tasmania. On 7 September 1936 the last known thylacine died at Hobart's zoo after being left outside its shelter on a cold night. The species had been granted protection just 59 days earlier. For decades farmers had killed the 'Tasmanian tiger' for bounties.
12th century BC · 20th century
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